Bioclimatology
Welcome to the Bioclimatology Group
Left to right:
Alexander Knohl, Tim Schacherl, Tejaswini Jaajpera, Ursula Buchholz, Marek Peksa, Anas Emad, Anne Klosterhalfen, Christian Markwitz, Edgar Tunsch, Nina Tiralla, Sandra Schweiger, Frank Tiedemann, Simon Drollinger
not present: Oisín Boersma, José Ángel Callejas Rodelas, Jonathan Jürgensen, Miriam Teuscher, Justus van Ramshorst, Andre Ringeler
Research and Teaching
Terrestrial ecosystems and particular forests are important components of the global climate system as sinks or sources of water vapor and trace gases such as carbon dioxide or methane. Furthermore, terrestrial ecosystems provide essential services to society by producing food, wood, improving water quality and by shaping local and regional climate.
The Department of Bioclimatology focuses - in research and teaching - on the interaction of ecosystems and atmosphere. We aim to understand the ecophysiology and biogeochemical cycles of terrestrial ecosystems and to investigate how they respond to a changing environment and to land-use management using field and laboratory measurements and models.
As key tools we use (a) micrometeorological approaches such as the eddy covariance technique for measuring the exchange of water vapor, energy and carbon dioxide, (b) stable isotopes in carbon dioxide (13C and 18O) and water vapor (2H and 18O) using laser spectroscopy, (c) ecosystem models such as CANVEG and regional climate models such as CLM for the analysis of feedbacks between land and atmosphere.
The Department of Bioclimatolgy operates research sites (eddy covariance flux towers and meteorological stations) in Germany (Hainich, Leinefelde, Reinshof, Göttinger Wald) and in Indonesia.